Word: thursday
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation have granted us permission to have Class Day Thursday as well as Friday or Saturday...
There are three things that might be done in regard to the conflict of the race with Class Day. First, ClassDay might be transferred to Thursday, omitting the Senior dance. Second, Class Day might be transferred to Saturday, if the crew were willing to race Thursday. Third, Class Day might remain as it is, on the same day with the race...
With Class Day on Thursday, both Class Day and the race can be attended. The objections would be (1) that the Senior dance would have to be given up, (2) the tradition of having Class Day on a fixed day every year would be broken, (3) it might be hard for every one to get to the race. With Class Day Saturday and the race Thursday, the crew would have to negotiate with two colleges for the change, and it might not be satisfactory to the class, as (1) many undergraduates would not come back from the race...
Another plan suggested by the Class Day committee is to change the race from Friday to Thursday and then to bring the Senior dance and the baseball game with Yale on Friday and Class Day proper on Saturday. The great objection to this plan is of course from the standpoint of the crew. It has already been discussed so much that it seems unnecessary to do so again. It may be summed up, however, by saying that the time spent at New London or Poughkeepsie, has been found by experience to be of such importance in putting the finishing touches...
...only remaining way of settling the difficulty and the only one which brings with it no real disadvantages is to leave the date of the race as it is and to change Class Day from Friday to Thursday. The loss of the Senior dance can be endured because it has never been held and it is not known whether it would be a success. The Yale game set for Thursday can probably be changed to the day before. And the traditions as to the date of Class Day are surely of minor importance beside those of the exercises themselves...